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A range of grants are available for new community legal initiatives to support better justice.

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Funding for legal initiatives and projects

Better justice requires organisations to understand and respond appropriately to community legal need.

Through our grants program we provide funding and support to new community legal initiatives, leading to better justice.

Our grant focus areas

Research and data

Projects that develop a new understanding through collection and use of data or assist to improve data capability.

Legal interventions

Projects that offer new approaches to delivering legal information or trial a strategy and gain further insights.

Education and communication

Projects that support community needs and improve understanding of the justice system

Grants to fit your project

Our grant rounds run at different times throughout the year.

Help the community to navigate civil legal issues and the Victorian justice system.

Build data capability and research skills to better understand and respond to community need.

Deliver small projects to support community legal need and improve understanding of the justice system.

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Case studies

Learn more about some of the projects funded by our grants.

Updating two of WIRE’s high distribution information booklets - Separation & Property and Stalking to include changes in legislation, support agency information and accessibility to meet the needs of the audience.

A video project designed to increase awareness and use of the Victorian Charter of Human Rights by showing how it can benefit Victorians.

Exploring if COVID-19 fines were disproportionately issued to culturally and linguistically diverse communities during 2020.

Projects we've funded

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Community Radio Legal Rights Education Campaign
Everyday Legal Grant
Current
2023/24
Rights
Consumer law
Housing
Fines
Family violence
Everyday Legal Grant
2023/24

The project will produce and distribute a series of engaging and informative legal rights messages for a general community broadcasting audience. The short announcements will address issues such as protest rights, renter rights, fines, consumer law and family violence. The content will be tailored to a community radio listening audience.

3CR Community Radio
Critical Legal Issues and Jurisdictional Intersectionality
Everyday Legal Grant
Completed
2023/24
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Everyday Legal Grant
2023/24

Legal Forum and Training for frontline workers to better understand jurisdiction complexity and legal assistance pathways for clients with complex and compounding issues.

Better Place Australia
Developing an informed understanding of the needs of single-parent renters from a legal capability perspective
Knowledge Grant
Current
2023/24
Parents
Knowledge Grant
2023/24

This project will enable Tenants Victoria to develop an informed understanding of the legal needs of single-parent renters and identify factors to enhance the impact of its legal assistance service model with this cohort.

Tenants Victoria
Equality Law Capability Project
Knowledge Grant
Current
2023/24
Refugees and migrants
CALD
Knowledge Grant
2023/24

Westjustice will conduct research into their legal capability to understand their legal needs and adapt legal services to improve access to the service.

WEstjustice
Re-Design of Koori Helpline & Resources Project
Everyday Legal Grant
Current
2023/24
First Nations
Consumer law
Everyday Legal Grant
2023/24

Community consultation to ensure resources reflect language, terminology and content that meet the needs of First Nations people.

Consumer Action Law Centre
Reproductive Coercion and Abuse: Supporting the Legal Assistance Sector to understand and respond
Knowledge Grant
Current
2023/24
Family violence
Knowledge Grant
2023/24

Reproductive coercion and abuse (RCA) is emerging as a critical and under-researched form of family/intimate partner violence. South-East Monash Legal Service seek to better understand RCA in the legal context, and identify effective strategies and interventions to ensure that the legal assistance sector is able to effectively support disclosures of RCA.

South-East Monash Legal Service
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